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Desember 17, 2006
North
Posted by barry at 5:09 EM
Desember 10, 2006
1965
In what I hope is one of the last anecdotes from the bar at Sound of Mu...
One of the strangest phenomena in Norway of the twenty-first century is the perpetuation of pop cultural myths from the distant past among creatures who I find it hard to believe are actually for real. Two of these came my way the other night. Both dressed in black, one of these young men had a pudding bowl haircut and sported a (to be quite honest questionably genuine) black moustache, and was singing the Who's "My Generation" over and over to himself. That song came out in 1965: surely it was his grandparents' generation that was being sung about?
Posted by barry at 3:57 FM
Desember 3, 2006
The Map of NoLand
Recently I brought the Irish band NoLand Folk over to Oslo to perform two shows. Their influences are supposedly, "Last night's session, green tea, a hallucination from 1911, jazz, folk," and "a dog's snoring." How could I not book them?
Continue reading "The Map of NoLand"
Posted by barry at 5:39 EM